president rahani said that nuclear weapons are not part of the nation's future.se, there's been in the past a trust vacuum as far as allowing access to many different nuclear sites to verify that. what might iran be able to offer? i mean, would it be that kind of unrestricted access to sites? >> reporter: well, i don't think they're going to give unrestricted access to military facilities which has been an issue. but their physician is -- their position is that they're willing to give some sort of concessions, perhaps reduce the number of centrifuges, perhaps increase access to the facility. their position all along has been that there's never been any evidence made public, that they're going after a bomb, that they're engaged in the most intrusive nuclear inspections, the iaea has ever conducted. they're willing to make concessions, but they're not going to give up on what they believe is a peaceful and legal, according to international law, nuclear program. on the other hand, they demand sanctions with relief. they believe the sanctions imposed by the upcoming

in the process it catalogs the other abuses that the regime recently s undertaken under president rahani at a time when we thought they might put a different foot forward to the international community. i reserve the right to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: mr. speaker, let me close and in closing i want to send a message of support to the iranian people as they build a better future for themselves and their children. today, this house exposes the gross violations of human rights by the iranian regime, the iranian people deserve better, and i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. royce: well, mr. speaker, plrp observers that were tempted to believe that iran's president would usher in a more tolerant attitude at home. i think that many of us suspected that might be the case. because he did occasionally offer a less antagonistic rhetoric tha

president rahani was reported yesterday or the day before told the iranian parliament that iran's will revenues are down 3 30%. thisoil revenues are down 30%. this will put enormous economic pressure on the iranians and everyone wonders how this will affect the negotiations over their nuclear program and whether they will be willing to make exceptions because the economic situation is difficult for them. that is one aspect for saudi arabia's neighbor. the other one, iraq, iraq is in real trouble but there are so many other factors other than the oil price war that is going on and it is hard to tell how much more impact is going to have and they are losing the kurdistan and the north exporting its oil separately from the central government so they are losing a lot of income from that. nobody knows whether the islamic state will end up affecting oil exports. so far it has not. iraqi exports in september and october were 2.5 million barrels so that is quite good. but if the fighting goes further south it could affect them quite substantially. there are a lot of other factors in the price